Here is a complete breakdown of the ages of the cast of 'I Love Lucy' including actress Vivian Vance who played the dowdy Ethel Mertz at the sitcom.
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In I Love Lucy, Ethel performs the dowdy landlady to cranky husband Fred Mertz, who happens to are living across the hallway from the fabulous Lucy and Ricky Ricardo.
However, in real lifestyles, Vivian was hoping to add just a little more intercourse attraction to her character — something that her co-star Lucille Ball was totally in opposition to.
So, how old was the cast in real life all the way through filming? Keep reading to determine!
Lucille Ball (Lucy Ricardo) — 40
Lucille Ball was considered "too old" for movies, so she went to radio and then in the end landed the lead position in I Love Lucy, which was necessarily a derivative of her radio display My Favorite Husband.
When filming started for the CBS sitcom, Lucy was 40 years old and performed the title personality till only some months shy of her forty sixth birthday.
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Desi Arnaz (Ricky Ricardo) — 34
Desi Arnaz was a couple of years more youthful than his spouse, so he spent his mid-to-late 30s filming I Love Lucy.
Fun reality: When Lucille and Desi were given married she was 29 and he was 23 years old!
Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz) — 42
Vivian was just a couple of years older than Lucille Ball all the way through filming; on the other hand, her on-screen spouse and husband, William Frawley, was twenty years older!
Despite tensions with Lucille on set, the co-stars remained just right friends in actual lifestyles.
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“I grew up with her round so much. My mother and Vivian have been in reality excellent friends in real existence," Lucille's daughter Lucie told KMC Chat in 2020. "They really have been good buddies. 'Like sisters' just right friends, 'inform each and every different precisely what’s what' good buddies. And they adored one some other. Vivian was probably the most funniest people on the earth — actually, truly funny. And when she would get together with my mother, it was beautiful."
William Frawley (Fred Mertz) — 64
William was no doubt the oldest of the cast at 64 years old. By the time the show got here to an result in 1957, William would have celebrated his seventieth birthday on set.
In phrases of the behind-the-scenes crew that also is featured in Being the Ricardos, writers Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll had been 30 and 33 years old respectively when the series premiered. Producer and head creator Jess Oppenheimer was 38 years old.
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